English > salmon: 5 senses > noun 1, animalMeaning | Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn. |
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Member of | Salmonidae, family Salmonidae | salmon and trout |
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Parts | salmon | flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae |
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Narrower | Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar | Found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries |
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blackfish | female salmon that has recently spawned |
chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | large Pacific salmon valued as food |
chum salmon, chum, Oncorhynchus keta | A large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back |
coho, cohoe, coho salmon, blue jack, silver salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch | small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes |
redfish | male salmon that has recently spawned |
sockeye, sockeye salmon, red salmon, blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka | small salmon with red flesh |
Broader | food fish | Any fish used for food by human beings |
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salmonid | soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters |
Spanish | salmon, salmón |
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Catalan | salmó |
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